Klarinet Archive - Posting 000314.txt from 2009/01

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet and no more than string quartet
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:44:44 -0500

I gave a copy of "Harlem Blues" by W. C. Handy for clarinet and string
quartet to the clarinet library at the Univ. of Delaware. It was the first
and only printing done ca. 1925. I doubt if another copy exists. Alan
Balter borrowed it from me and played it in Menphis. He said it was a very
good piece.

It's not virtuosic in any traditional sense, but you can bend your notes and
do jazzy things that audiences love.

For flashy and virtuosic (as well as being vacuous in my opinion), there is
the final movement of the Weber quintet for clarinet and strings.

Dan Leeson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Rusinek" <mrusinek@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 11:11 AM
Subject: [kl] Clarinet and no more than string quartet

> Does anyone have any leads on crowd pleasing, popular tunes and/or
> arrangements (preferably "flashy" and virtuosic) for clarinet and a
> combination of strings (I'm looking for more modern/ popular culturish
> type things)? I will have a string quartet from which to form
> combinations.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Michael
>
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